Dave Wright and Scott Ambler have started a discussion about the book over on the Requirements Network - check out this topic (registration required) if you want to join in.

Mixing it up with a snapshot of the BI stack arena
Interesting list of BI vendors in various categories - very useful
(tags: BI vendors)

Customer Experience Matrix: The Next Big Leap for Marketing Software
David Raab has a nice post on moving marketing software up a notch for a better customer experience
(tags: marketing best next action customer experience)

Smart [...]

Sandy Kemsley posted her review of Smart (Enough) Systems to the Intelligent Enterprise blog - Smart Enough Systems: Change Rules, Not Processes

I always enjoy reading David Raab’s work and his recent post on marketing software was no exception. In The Next Big Leap for Marketing Software he makes a number of great points and I particularly like the steps he lays out for getting people on board. I have blogged before about the value of using [...]

The SOA Magazine
Excerpt from the book for SOA Magazine
(tags: soa smartenoughsystems smart enough systems)

Business Process Management (BPM) - BPM Strategies Magazine
Latest issues of BPM strategies magazine with articles on decision management and decision services
(tags: bpm business process management decision bdm service edm enterprise)

I saw this article today on Real-Time Analytics: The Importance of Strategic Alignment and Ease of Use, and it made me think (again) about the danger of pretty pictures. While the article makes some good points about analytics in manufacturing, it seems to me that the author is sucked in to thinking that pretty pictures [...]

The book was excerpted for Thomas Erl’s SOA Magazine - Smart Enough for SOA: Incorporating Enterprise Decision Management into Service Design

Implications for BI from Gartner’s Five Discontinuities for IT « Cyril on Business Intelligence
Nice post by Cyril Brookes on the potential impact of decision automation on the BI market
(tags: bi gartner trends decision management automation)

Business Analytics: All About Decision Management System
Bhupendra has a nice summary of the steps involed in building a decision management system
(tags: [...]

Last week Richard Hackathorn posted Where to Pick Your Battles and referenced an interesting post by Richard Buckle titled, somewhat incongruously, Need a drink! These two posts made me think about the value of picking decision management as your battle when thinking about upgrading your current IT environment to better support your business. Richard H said:
“Doing IT as [...]

Good Rules Can Eliminate 65% of Activities | The Intelligent Enterprise Blog
Post by Sandy Kemsley on some of her learnings from Business Rules Forum
(tags: intelligent enterprise sandy kemsley bpm business rules forum)

BI as Commodity Technology: The Information Angle | The Intelligent Enterprise Blog
Seth Grimes notes that EDM is going to replace the basic BI value [...]